Preface
I first encountered Cocoa as a college student in about 1989. Of course, that was before the iPhone, before Mac OS X, and before it was even called Cocoa. Back then, the seed of today’s Cocoa was a part of NeXTStep, the OS that was the core of the NeXT computers. NeXTStep was years ahead of its time, and while the lab full of NeXT workstations was woefully underused in the computer science courses, my student sysadmin job had me using them daily. As a user, I was hooked. I won’t dwell on the NeXT user experience here, but I’ll just state that many of the best features of Mac OS X come not so much from the Mac of old as from NeXTStep.
At that time, there was no www, not much of a NeXTStep developer community, and very little written about ...
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